2014 Event Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, American aid workers who contracted the Ebola virus in Liberia and returned to the U.S. for treatment, have been released and declared fully recovered 2014 Event Twenty-eight years after Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos was ousted, the Philippine government recovers $29 million from Swiss accounts, bringing the total Marcos' secret accounts now recovered and in government hands to $712 million 2013 Event A portion of the Chelyabinsk meteor weighing 1,255lb is recovered by divers in Russia 2013 Event Three months after $50 million in diamonds is stolen at the Brussels Airport, more than 24 people in France, Switzerland and Belgium were detained, and a significant stash of the diamonds and stash recovered 2013 Event Lazarus Project scientists reveal that they successfully recovered frozen tissue from the 1970's and rejuvenated the cells of Rheobatrachus silus, a species of frog that has been extinct since 1983 2012 Event Illegally excavated Buddhist relics that were recovered by Pakistani police were stolen from a police station in Karachi; the pieces date back to the Gandhara civilization which existed over 2,000 years ago in Pakistan 2012 Event President Hugo Chavez, of Venezuela, announces he has recovered from pelvic cancer 2012 Event The black box is recovered from the Russian passenger jet that carried 44 passengers and crashed in the Indonesian province of West Java, leaving no survivors 2012 Event Treasure from Spain's Navy frigate Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes is returned to Spain after it was recovered by Odyssey Marine Exploration in 2007 1994 Event Edvard Munchs painting "The Scream" recovered 3 months after stolen 1987 Event 60 bodies recovered in Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in Puerto Rico 1983 Birthday Jessica Lynch, born in Palatine, West Virginia, former Private First Class in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps, captured by Iraqis, recovered by special ops forces 1961 Event Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered 1960 Event Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 3 mice into orbit (later recovered alive) 1960 Event U.S.S.R. recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space 1913 Event "Mona Lisa," stolen from Louvre Museum in 1911, recovered 1911 Event Mona Lisa stolen from Louvre (Recovered in 1913)
